Length59m
About this audiobook
In the poem that opens her debut collection, Susan Okie recounts an evening in the anatomy lab. Here we witness the depths of her curiosity toward her subject's inner workings. When I tugged on the flexor digitorum tendons, / her fingers partly closed and her thumb /crooked in. I seemed to see the two of us / as if from outside, and could no longer / name the tendons. I felt my fingers / from inside her hand." What to some might feel like harrowing proximity, Okie delivers, in astonishing verse, with wonder and even intimacy. To be sure,
Woman at the Crossing is the work of a seasoned practitioner.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length59 mins
Narrated bySusan Okie
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 7, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
26Towardoffices
2Section 1
27Section 3
3Intheanatomylab
28Onlakevictoria 1992
4Theblackdogwakesuswithfishbreath
29Thenewwidow
5Learningtodrink
30Herface
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6Adeadloon
31Selfportrait 730am 01
7Therainsbegininwesternkenya
32Formyfather
8Womanatthecrossing
33Ivisitmyfatherinthehospitalmidwaythroughpregnancy
9Willyofkisumukenya
34Twomothers
10Adoctorseyeignaciosfoot
35Womensworkkisumukenya
11Ingreatvillage
36Judith
12Slippery
37Totsvetayeva
13Section 2
38Adoctorseyeafterthemammogram
14Thelifeofsecrets
39Adoctorseyethenewpatient
15Thedictionary
40Insideout
16Myparentspicniconcorregidor
41Metamorphosis
17Myfatherinmexicocity 1921
42Section 4
18Undertaking
43Prayerinthewinterdesert
19Withinbounds
44Trackingthemother
20Myfavoriteyear
45Tothespiritsofchacocanyon
21Theendofpacificoceanpark
46Elizabethbishopinjectsherselfwithadrenalineforasthma
22Thefilly
47Lovesaustereandlonelyoffices
23Interiorwithyoungwoman
48Standoffonthemarshtrail
24Inhades
49Cucumber
25Adoctorseyetheybedofcrimsonjoy
50Onthedockinthedark
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